The UK Rape Pamphlet Misses The Point

Via Breitbart News:

The British government has issued a guide to alleged asylum seekers to teach them the customs of the United Kingdom, such as not raping women or engaging in sexual acts with children.

In an apparent tacit admission of the backwards cultures being allowed into Britain, the Home Office — the government department tasked with controlling immigration — has published a nine-page booklet for new arrival migrants who apply for asylum, as is the case for most illegal boat migrants as soon as they set foot on English shores.

In a section on rape, migrants are told that both parties must consent to sex “without threat or pressure” and that it is not acceptable to have sex with someone who is “asleep, drunk, or unable to respond”.

“If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape. Rape is a serious crime in the UK. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim,” the booklet explains.

The first question I have is whether the booklet will be published in Arabic, Urdu, or whatever languages the migrants actually speak, but it turns out this is a sensitive issue:

Home Office officials are preparing to translate guidance telling asylum seekers not to rape or beat women into multiple languages. The shocking literature – which was signed off by Home Office ministers - will be translated to “ensure there are no barriers to comprehension”.

But the Government is refusing to say which dialects the guidance, first revealed by the Express, will be adapted into. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch warned the official document effectively confirms some arrivals pose a danger to women and girls, saying: “Anyone needing this leaflet does not belong in Britain”.

Analysis of Government records show asylum seekers from Pakistan, Eritrea, Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sudan, India, Somalia, Nigeria and Vietnam make up the top 10 nationalities seeking sanctuary in the UK.

. . . Shadow Home Office Minister Katie Lam said: “Despite telling the public that illegal migrants pose no risk to the public, it's beyond telling that the Home Office feels the need to release a leaflet telling illegal migrants that rape is wrong, that sex with children is wrong, and that men and women are equal.

So the best we can gather is that the booklet has in fact been published in English -- it's online here -- but it has yet to be fully translated into any language the migrants actually understand. In other words, the booklet isn't intended for migrants, it's intended for UK natives to give the impression that the government has good intentions -- except it would be embarrassing to list the exact languages into which they intend someday to translate it.

But the problem goes beyond recent migrants/asylum seekers, to whom the booklet is putatively addressed, although not in their languages. "Grooming gangs", which is a polite term for rape gangs, have been a problem in the UK for generations:

Several government reviews have reported failures by British institutions in preventing, identifying and prosecuting the widespread cases of group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation that mostly occurred between the 1990s and 2010s. Allegations of governmental and institutional failures to respond to the problem or to downplay or cover up the issue have been described as a grooming gangs scandal.

Media coverage and political discourse around these crimes has especially focused on the ethnic and religious background of perpetrators in high-profile cases, most of whom were Muslim men of Pakistani descent, and whether this prevented proper investigation. Data in Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire shows that, in the 2020s, men of an Asian ethnic background are disproportionately represented among perpetrators in those areas, but there is insufficient data to draw conclusions about ethnicity of perpetrators across the UK.

Note on one hand the extreme delicacy with which the subject is addressed at all, combined with the reluctant acknowledgement that the problem has been minimized for decades. I strongly suspect that rape gangs originated with the systematic importation of Pakistanis to the UK from the 1950s onward:

Migration from regions that now form Pakistan began in small numbers during the 1950s and 1960s, facilitated by Pakistan’s membership of the Commonwealth. Many migrants were recruited to address labour shortages in industries such as textiles, steel, engineering, manufacturing, while others, including doctors, contributed to the development of the National Health Service.

It used to be taught in Economics 101 that "labor shortage" is another way of saying "rising wages". It's hard for me to avoid thinking that the first wave of Asian migration came at the same time as the postwar Labour government's nationlization of the transport, coal, and steel industries and socialized medicine, which the link above effectively acknowledges. The Pakistanis were introduced more or less specifically to keep UK working-class wages down, at a time when, in contrast, the US working class became much more prosperous.

I find it fascinating that the question of migration in the UK is treated with the level of delicacy, even prudery, that was once attributed to Victorians over sex. Of course, sex is involved here, too, but the official line is that the problem is new, and it can be solved by telling tne new migrants not to rape -- except the migrants who've been in the UK since the 1950s, the vast majority of whom were born there, have been doing the same th9ng all along, but it's not polite to say this.